On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:46:56PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Alexander Volovics <a.volo...@upcmail.nl> wrote: > > On a Dell Inspiron 7720 with a working up to date install > > of Fed 19 beta I decided, for no good reason, to change the > > order of the Fedora and CD entries in the EFI boot menu using > > efibootmgr. > > However when trying to boot again the only entry available > > in the EFI boot menu was for PXE boot. > > All other entries (Fedora, CD, USB) were either deleted or > > "blanked". > > So I am unable to boot Fedora in EFI mode again. > > I have no time to look into this further at the moment but > > I would like to know if it is at all save to use efibootmgr.
> efibootmgr depends on the kernel to poke the firmware to modify NVRAM. Since > the kernel and UEFI firmware are bug free, yes efibootmgr should be safe. But > in case you find more time you might look at: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975537 > and this comment lists other bugs that might be related (tagged against > anaconda and efibootmgr): > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975537#c25 > So it seems there are some problems with some firmwares and/or some kernels > modifying NVRAM. I am going to look into this on Sunday, see if I can find out more to make a bug report. Will also check the bugs you mentioned. AV -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
